The Vera List Center is pleased to announce the Vera List Center Forum 2020, an international, annual convening of artists, curators, and activists in the fields of art and politics, presented online from October 6 to 10. This year’s forum introduces the center’s new 2020-2022 focus theme As for Protocols, and over five days highlights the Vera List Center’s vibrant and expanding fellowship program culminating on October 10 with the announcement of the finalists for and recipient of the 2020-2022 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice on October 10.
A tribute to scholar and public intellectual Maurice Berger (1956-2020) launches the Forum on October 6. A columnist for the New York Times and the center’s first Fellow, Berger advanced the studies of race and representation, and his achievements will be illuminated by Courtney R. Baker, Lonnie G. Bunch III, Nona Faustine, David Gonzalez, and Sarah Lewis, in a discussion moderated by Kinshasha Homan Conwill. It will include a protocol-directed performance composed by VLC Fellow Robert Sember as well as a video tribute by some of Maurice Berger’s colleagues and peers, and VLC Fellow Sarah Rothenberg’s piano recital of Morton Feldman’s last composition, Palais de Mari, recorded earlier this year and dedicated to Berger.
October 7 and 8 feature screenings, presentations, and conversations with the 2020-2022 VLC Fellows and their guests: Carolina Caycedo with poet and MacArthur Fellow Natalie Diaz; Etcétera with scholar Jennifer Ponce de León; Maria Hupfield with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson; and Adelita Husni Bey with Robert Sember. Rasheedah Phillips presents her work with Black Quantum Futurism and her research into the effects of time on Black Americans.
On October 9, scholar Alexander Galloway delivers the keynote lecture The Computable and the Uncomputable.
The Forum concludes on October 10 with What Protocols Are Needed Now?, a conversation with curators Ivet Curlin/WHW, Natasha Ginwala, Candice Hopkins, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, and activist Tamara Oyola-Santiago. The recipient of the 2020-2022 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice and the Jane Lombard Fellows will be announced with leading artists and practitioners in the field of art and social justice gathering from around the world.
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